preliminaries
Example Sentences
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Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Earlier, during the preliminaries, someone had led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance—first to the American flag, then to the state of Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Last week he ran a personal best of 15:03 at the preliminaries, so he put together back-to-back weeks reaching peak form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Aside from the bartender, there was only one person actually braving the record-breaking 110-degree heat on the roof and watching UFC preliminaries on the wall-mounted TV: a gregarious, stocky, bespectacled older man named Mike.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
